Hacker News: johanyc

New comment by johanyc in "RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google"

johanyc — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:17:34 +0000

Do you get spam at that email address? I have not published mine because I hate spam

New comment by johanyc in "RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google"

johanyc — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:01:03 +0000

Are there existing good implementations of that? Does Feedly have that?

New comment by johanyc in "RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google"

johanyc — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:51:18 +0000

No. I knew it's data point for one website only and I'm still interested.

New comment by johanyc in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

johanyc — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:18:16 +0000

yeah. webpages now load so slow just because i have to wait for the captcha

New comment by johanyc in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

johanyc — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:17:23 +0000

> Why would bots "overwhelm" a site is another discussion — I find it really hard to create a website that would be "overwhelmed" by traffic these days, computers are stupidly fast.

are the cloudflare walls really about reducing load? I thought it's because bots are not profitable. They don't click on ads, don't buy, etc.

New comment by johanyc in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

johanyc — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:22:02 +0000

Direct link https://xcancel.com/brian_armstrong/status/20516167591451857...

New comment by johanyc in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

johanyc — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:50:17 +0000

> A few places where we still help, even after iOS 27 ships:

> Google Wallet. Create a Pass is iPhone-only. Roughly half of the wallet-using world is on Android, and our generator builds Google Wallet passes from the same form.

From the blog

New comment by johanyc in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

johanyc — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:47:41 +0000

I was thinking about this app. Couldn't recall the name

New comment by johanyc in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

johanyc — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:46:47 +0000

Apple wallet proactively shows your event pass when it's time. Much better than trying to find the photo from your camera roll

New comment by johanyc in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

johanyc — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:22:52 +0000

Why did you stop?

New comment by johanyc in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

johanyc — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:18:11 +0000

Tbf the point of the post is the "even when unused" part. A memory store is still a store.

New comment by johanyc in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

johanyc — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:32:11 +0000

Spotlight exists. Typing is much faster than moving your cursor to a small target like a menu bar item.

New comment by johanyc in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

johanyc — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:05:22 +0000

Seriously why does Anthropic have so many shenanigans? I once wanted to try claude code coming from codex, but seeing these made me lose any appetite. Plus they are not open to the broader ecosystems like not reading .agents folder etc

New comment by johanyc in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

johanyc — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:53:04 +0000

So battle tested

New comment by johanyc in "Warp is now open-source"

johanyc — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:13:32 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS%2F2

TIL OS/2 is also called warp

New comment by johanyc in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

johanyc — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:52:32 +0000

Link with time code: https://youtu.be/ue9MWfvMylE?t=2261

New comment by johanyc in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

johanyc — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:31:07 +0000

> I don't know that I buy that it's "planned obsolescence".

I'm responding to this. It might be worth it for your wife. But if for a lot of people, paying $100 to revive a 6 year old phone is a bad deal, then it's planned obsolescence

New comment by johanyc in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

johanyc — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:18:50 +0000

> In short, I think Apple has made a good decision here for short term reasons, but I don’t think it’s a short-term decision: I strongly suspect that Apple, whether it has admitted it to itself or not, has just committed itself to depending on 3rd-parties for AI for the long run.

I'm not so sure it's smart to rely on others for such a major paradigm shift

New comment by johanyc in "Not buying another Kindle"

johanyc — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:32:53 +0000

There wouldn't be so much backlash if they didn't end downloading ebook support from the website.

New comment by johanyc in "OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”"

johanyc — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:26:09 +0000

Yeah I'm confused too. Google is pretty much doing the same thing as it did when they started monetizing search.